Trace-carrier.



PATENTED MAR. 24, 1908. w. B. DIP-PERT. TRACE CARRIER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 14, 1907.

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WILLIAM E. DIPPERT, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

TRACE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application filed. May 14, 1907. Serial No. 374,105.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. DIPPERT, a citizen of the United. States of America, and resident of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Trace-Oarrier, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting the ends of traces, trace-chains, and the like on the top of a harness when detached from a vehicle, and relates to and is an improvement on the invention described and claimed in Letters Patent No. 701,858 granted to me June 10, 1902.

My invention consists primarily on forming bosses or knobs on the extremities of hooks or lateral arms adapted to engage and retain cock-eyes or chain links.

My invention consists further in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements, hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan of one form of my improved device mounted as required for practical use and engaging cockeyes. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the device on the longest diameter of the ring thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the device on the shortest diameter of the ring thereof. Fig. 4 is a plan of another form of my device similar to the one shown in Design Patent No. 33,382, granted. to me October 16, 1900. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the latter device on the in dicated line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a crosssection of the latter device on the indicated line 66 of Fig. 4.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates a ring, in this instance oval in form. An arched bar 11 crosses and is arched above the plane of the ring on its shortest diameter. Each end portion of the arched bar 11 is forked and the arms 12 thereof extend laterally and then turn outwardly and connect integrally with the ring 10 at opposite points, thus forming loops or eyes to receive straps 13, 14 whereby the ring is secured to a wear-leather 15. Other straps 16, 17, or more in number, may be attached to the ring 10 between the loops and serve to support breeching' not shown, or for any other purpose. The ring 10 is raised from the upper surface of the wear-leather 15 the thickness of the straps 13, 14, 16, 17. Arms 18, 19 are attached integrally to the central portion of the arched bar 11 and extend in opposite directions therefrom a distarice and then turn downward and extend across the horizontal plane of the ring and terminate in a plane below said ring and adj acent the upper surface of the wear-leather 15. The extremities or end faces of the arms 18, 19 preferably are plane and of larger diameter than the cross-section of the arms above their ends, this form being produced by forming bosses, knobs or enlargements 20, 21 on the ends of the arms. Cock-eyes 22, 23, trace-ends or toggle-chains, may be inserted between the extremities of the arms 18, 19 and the wearleather and be engaged by the arms. The cock-eyes need to be forced through the space between the ends of the arms and the wear leather by flexing or springing said wear-leather away from said arms, and thereafter the bosses or knobs 20, 21 aid materially in preventing accidental removal of the cockeyes from the carrier.

In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 I show the same form of device as that shown in design patent above noted, with this exception, viz., the arms 23, 24 of the device are formed with knobs, bosses or lateral enlargements 25, 26 on their extremities and the arms themselves are relatively longer than in the design.

I claim as my invention 1. A trace-carrier, comprising a single ring, a single arched bar extending across the center of the ring with its ends integral with the inner portion of said ring, said arched-bar provided on opposite sides of its center with downwardly-extending arms, the ends of the arms terminating beyond the side of the arched bar and below the plane of the ring.

2. A trace-carrier, comprising a single ring, an arched bar extending across the center of the ring with its ends integral with the inner portion of said ring, said arched bar provided on o posite sides of its center with a downward y-extending arm, the-ends of the arms terminating in knobs or bosses beyond the sides of the arched bar and below the plane of and knobs or bosses on the extremities of said the ring. arms below the plane of the ring. 10 3. Atrace-carrier, comprisingasingle ring, Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this an arched bar crossing said ring, the ends of 18 day of May, 1906.

the arched bar forked and integral With the WILLIAM E. DIPPERT.

inner portion of the ring, arms on "and eX- Witnesses:

tending laterally and downwardly from op- S. 0., SWEET,

posite sides of the center of the arched bar, L. L. LEIBRooH. 

